Federal Science and Technology Grants

This funding opportunity supports Minority-Serving Institutions in expanding their research capabilities and collaborations in computer and information science to enhance diversity and innovation in the field.

This funding opportunity provides $54,000 to organizations that will create and manage educational programs promoting American English, business practices, and technology skills for youth and professionals in Mozambique.

This funding opportunity provides financial support for research on the ecological impacts of climate change on saguaro cacti, aimed at informing conservation strategies in Saguaro National Park, specifically targeting institutions affiliated with the Desert Southwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit.

This funding opportunity is designed for research organizations affiliated with the Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit to study and improve land management practices that reduce wildfire risks and restore ecosystems in the southwestern United States.

Funding Opportunity Title: Promoting Economic Security and Responsible Usage of Emerging Technologies Funding Opportunity Number: PD-SEOUL-FY24-03 Deadline for Applications: Wednesday, July 31, 11:59 p.m. GMT+9 CFDA Number: 19.040 Public Diplomacy Programs Total Amount Available: $200,000 Maximum for Each Award: $100,000 This notice is subject to availability of funding. A. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION The U.S. Embassy Seoul Public Diplomacy Section (PD) of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications for programs that promote themes related to economic security, supply chains, quality and sustainable infrastructure, clean energy transition and responsible use of emerging technologies. This Notice of Funding Opportunity builds upon the theme of the 2024 Summit for Democracy, Democracy for Future Generations, hosted this year by the Republic of Korea. The Summit for Democracy is a global initiative that highlights the critical role of democracy, transparency, and inclusivity in tackling the worlds most pressing challenges. Successful proposals must include an American element or connection with American experts, organizations, or institutions in a field that will promote increased understanding of U.S. policies and perspectives. Proposals may include requests for international travel and related costs of experts, speakers, and key individuals in support of broader activities. However, participant exchanges should not be the exclusive program activity. Embassy Seoul strongly encourages proposals that include substantial outreach in areas outside of the Seoul Metropolitan region. Program activities should take place primarily in the Republic of Korea. Programs in the United States and/or third countries will only be considered with extremely strong justification and/or significant cost sharing (including but not limited to travel expenses and in-kind contributions). Virtual components may be considered to supplement activities within Korea. Program Area 1) Promoting Economic Security in the Indo-Pacific Region The Indo-Pacific region is pivotal in shaping global economic security landscapes. Understanding the key themes and strategic importance of multilateral agreements and frameworks in this region is crucial for informed decision-making and policy development. Objective: Embassy Seoul seeks proposals that: Increase understanding of critical economic security themes in the Indo-Pacific region. Analyze the benefits of strategic frameworks and agreements for economic security. Target Audience: International trade and economic security experts from the academic, think tank, government, and private sectors. Expected activities: Workshops and seminars, Policy briefings, Public awareness activities. Program Area 2) Leveraging Emerging Technologies to Tackle Global Challenges Emerging technologies, such as AI and climate technology, hold significant potential in addressing pressing global challenges like climate change, disinformation, and the transformation of traditional trade markets. Harnessing these technologies, when done responsibly, can lead to innovative solutions and a more sustainable future. Objective: Embassy Seoul seeks proposals that: Promote the use of advanced technologies to address global challenges. Foster knowledge sharing between tech experts and diverse audiences. Explore tangible applications of emerging technology in areas like carbon emission reduction, combating disinformation, and transforming e-commerce. Target Audience: Climate tech experts, policymakers, industry leaders, e-commerce experts, SMEs, and ROK youth groups involved in AI, web/app development, data science, programming, entrepreneurship, and machine learning. Expected activities: Workshops, hackathons, mentorship programs, training. Participants and Audiences: Participants should reflect the United States governments commitment to diversity, inclusion, equity, and accessibility Note: Not mandatory, but you may use the templates provided here: Proposal Template / Budget Template All application materials must be submitted by email to SeoulPDGrants@state.gov

This funding opportunity supports international collaborations to improve the detection and response to biological threats, particularly in developing countries, by enhancing biosurveillance and biosecurity capabilities.

The "Inspiring Generations of New Innovators to Impact Technologies in Energy (IGNIITE) 2025" grant aims to support early-career scientists and engineers in developing innovative energy technologies that address urgent challenges and enhance U.S. leadership in the energy sector.

The NISTs Accelerating Federal Technology Transfer (AFTT) Program is seeking applications from eligible applicants for activities to help promote, educate, and facilitate federal technology transfer. Under the AFTT Program, members of the Federal Laboratory Consortiums (FLC) Executive Board, including NIST, will collaborate with the awardee on the development of outreach and educational programs, tools, and best practices that will enhance the ability of the academic and private sectors to engage with Federal laboratories in technology transfer and research commercialization. Specifically, the awardee will collaborate with the FLCs Executive Board, including NIST, in the areas of technology transfer and research commercialization by: developing the necessary tools and services to promote the utilization of Federal intellectual property, user facilities, and other R resources by non-federal partners; creating a suitable education and training infrastructure in technology transfer for the relevant stakeholders; and engaging industry, academic, and state and local government communities to facilitate access to federal R collaborations and federal technology transfer opportunities on both a regional and a national level.

This grant provides funding for organizations to archive, restore, and develop tools for planetary data, supporting research in space and Earth sciences.

The grant titled "ROSES 2024: C.27 Lucy in the L4 Trojans Participating Scientist Program" is a funding opportunity by NASA's Science Mission Directorate for research and technology in space and Earth sciences, with a specific focus on the Lucy in the L4 Trojans project, and it invites proposals from various types of organizations, both domestic and foreign.

Grant Title: Request for Information (RFI) - Three-Dimensional Characterization of the Subsurface by Advanced Modeling and Sensing Techniques: This grant seeks innovative ideas and technologies to improve the exploration and 3-D mapping of critical mineral deposits in the subsurface, aiming to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of mineral exploration in order to reduce U.S. reliance on foreign sources.

The LRP seeks to improve quality of life of persons with lupus using an intervention at the individual and/or health care system level. This effort is supported through two related, but separate, award mechanisms, the LRP TVDA and the LRP Transformative Vision Award (TVA).The TVDA is intended to provide support to conduct pilot studies that will generate preliminary data and demonstrate feasibility for achieving the aims of a future TVA project.The TVA supports applications that will fulfill an extraordinary vision for dramatically improving the quality of life of persons with lupus in the near term using an intervention at the individual and/or health care system level.Applicants are not required to be awarded a TVDA to submit a TVA application.Examples of suitable LRP TVDA preliminary studies would include development and optimization of an intervention, intervention safety studies, or refinement of trial design.The CDMRP encourages research on health areas and conditions that affect women uniquely, disproportionately, or differently from men, including studies analyzing sex as a biological variable. Such research should relate anticipated project findings to improvements in women's health outcomes and/or advancing knowledge for women's health.

This funding opportunity supports U.S. higher education institutions in developing advanced research platforms for innovative materials, focusing on alloys, amorphous, and composite materials, while promoting collaboration and engagement across diverse scientific disciplines.

The "FY25 Ocean Acidification Coastal Research: Uniting Investigations and Shipboard Experiments (OA CRUISE)" grant aims to fund projects that enhance coastal research on ocean acidification, particularly in relation to the upcoming East Coast Ocean Acidification Cruise (ECOA-4) in summer 2026, focusing on the impacts of ocean chemistry changes on marine ecosystems and coastal communities.

This program provides funding for researchers to analyze publicly available data about Mars to improve our understanding of its surface, climate, and potential for supporting life.

This grant provides over $8 million to U.S.-based individuals and organizations for innovative projects that combine solar energy systems with cattle grazing to promote sustainable land use and support rural economies.

The purpose of this NOFO is to solicit applications for the Exploratory Advanced Research (EAR) Program to award cooperative agreements. The NOFO will result in the distribution of up to $2,000,000.The EAR program addresses the need for longer-term, higher risk breakthrough research with the potential for transformational improvements to plan, build, renew, and operate safe, congestion free, and environmentally sound transportation systems. The overall goal of this NOFO is to collect diverse pedestrian data, provide researchers access to this data, and encourage novel approaches for analysis of diverse data in support of increasing the safety and mobility of all people. The authority to enter into a cooperative agreement for this effort is found under 23 U.S.C. 502(b)(3)(C ). And funding for this effort is provided in in BIL (P. L. 117-58) Sec. 11101(c)(1)(A).

This funding opportunity provides financial support to Sea Grant Programs for creating hands-on aquaculture internships that help develop workforce skills in the U.S. aquaculture industry for students and interested individuals, including veterans and commercial fishers.

The Office of Sciences (SC) mission is to deliver scientific discoveries and major scientific tools to transform our understanding of nature and advance the energy, economic, and national security of the United States (U.S.). SC is the Nations largest Federal sponsor of basic research in the physical sciences and the lead Federal agency supporting fundamental scientific research for our Nations energy future. Science for energy, economic and national securitybuilding a foundation of scientific and technical knowledge to spur discoveries and innovations for advancing the Departments mission. SC supports a wide range of funding modalities from single principal investigators to large team-based activities to engage in fundamental research on energy production, conversion, storage, transmission, and use, and on our understanding of the earth systems. The frontiers of scienceexploring natures mysteries from the study of fundamental subatomic particles, atoms, and molecules that are the building blocks of the materials of our universe and everything in it to the DNA, proteins, and cells that are the building blocks of life. Each of the programs in SC supports research probing the most fundamental disciplinary questions.The 21st Century tools of scienceproviding the nations researchers with 28 state-of-the-art national scientific user facilities, the most advanced tools of modern science, propelling the U.S. to the forefront of science, technology development, and deployment through innovation.SC is an established leader of the U.S. scientific discovery and innovation enterprise. Over the decades, SC investments and accomplishments in basic research and enabling research capabilities have provided the foundations for new technologies, businesses, and industries, making significant contributions to our nations economy, national security, and quality of life.

The U.S. National Science Foundations Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP) is charged with accelerating use-inspiredand translationalresearch and development (R) to advance U.S. competitiveness in key technology focus areas. The Use-Inspired Acceleration of Protein Design (USPRD) initiative will accelerate the translation of novel approaches to protein design and enable new applications of importance to the U.S. bioeconomy. Significant advances have been made in the ability of researchers to predict the three-dimensional (3D) structure of proteins from primary sequence, and to use that information to design proteins with desired characteristics. These advances have been enabled by: macromolecular modeling; training data available in repositories such as the Protein Data Bank (PDB); the application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning; and high-throughput protein characterization. The improved accuracy of in-silico design has reduced the number of constructs that need to be validated in costly and time-consuming wet lab experiments. USPRD aims to advance protein design and its applications to the next level by: A. Accelerating the use of protein design technologies to enable applications beyond human therapeutics, e.g., applications to advanced materials, biomanufacturing, agriculture and food security, environmental remediation, sustainability, and climate-related challenges. B. Extending the range of accurate prediction models to enable the design of enzymes and families of enzymes. This will require models and tools that account for the dynamic nature of protein structures. USPRD seeks significant breakthroughs in the application of protein design through: a) Use-driven activities that design novel proteins with specific characteristics and demonstrate their application, e.g., the design and characterization of specific enzymes or enzyme families that promote sustainability by degrading specific bio-contaminants. b) Infrastructure components, such as software tools, datasets, and characterization services that can readily be accessed by protein designers. c) Designer-facing components that will ensure the accessibility of the infrastructure components and collaboration with protein designers engaged in the third-party use-driven activities. d) Ecosystem components, such as standards and roadmaps, that help coordinate the actions of multiple parties within the emerging ecosystem. This may also include open-source software and/or data repositories. e) Workforce components focused on the training of translational talent with the skills and passion to engage in use-driven protein design activities. USPRD will use the Ideas Lab process (see PAPPG Chapter II.F.6),starting with an intensive meeting that brings together multiple diverse perspectives. A key aim of this Ideas Lab workshop will be to identify an aggressive (but attainable) set of use-driven activities together with the infrastructure component breakthroughs, designer-facing components, and ecosystem components required to realize them. USPRD includes two tracks: Track I. Use-driven application for small binders. Track II. The design and use of enzymes and families of enzymes.